USA TODAY: The White House has already issued a statement saying the Justice Department would appeal the judge’s decision to allow the deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants.
USA TODAY: The White House has already issued a statement saying the Justice Department would appeal the judge’s decision to allow the deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants.
“The Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that the federal government can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws — which is exactly what the President did when he announced commonsense policies to help fix our broken immigration system,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a middle-of-the-night statement.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, filed suit in December on behalf of Texas and 26 other states opposed executive action proposed by Obama in November. The temporary injunction will halt the administration’s actions on immigration — moves that could protect up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation — as the states’ lawsuit moves forward.
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